In the EU project SIMCor, researchers under the leadership of the pediatric cardiologist Prof. Titus Kühne from the Institute for Cardiovascular Computer-Assisted Medicine (ICM) at Charité are developing in silico modeling. Teams of physicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists simulate, for example, a beating heart or the carotid artery in the computer. they want to see what happens when a certain implant is inserted into the anatomy of a child or adult. To do this, the simulations are to be adapted to various pathological conditions and clinical characteristics.

In the proof of concept study, there will be two implants investigated currently being developed by industry partners: a transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) and a pulmonary artery pressure sensor (PAPS). The scientists will compare the development with the new and old methods.

The EU is funding the project with 7.2 million euros.

Source:
https://www.gesundheitsstadt-berlin.de/projekt-simcor-computersimulationen-koennen-tierversuche-reduzieren-15021/